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Yale Men’s Basketball schedule unveiled

The Yale mascot celebrates the Bulldogs’ victory over Baylor in the NCAA tournament in 2016.

The Yale mascot celebrates the Bulldogs’ victory over Baylor in the NCAA tournament in 2016.

Photo: Catherine Avalone / Hearst Connecticut Media

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The Yale mascot celebrates the Bulldogs’ victory over Baylor in the NCAA tournament in 2016.

The Yale mascot celebrates the Bulldogs’ victory over Baylor in the NCAA tournament in 2016.

Photo: Catherine Avalone / Hearst Connecticut Media

Yale Men’s Basketball schedule unveiled

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The Yale men’s basketball team will open the 2018-19 season in China, facing California in the first of a 27-game schedule unveiled Wednesday.

The Bulldogs, coming off a 16-15 season, will travel 7,337 miles to face the Bears in the Pac 12 China game in Shanghai on Nov. 10. It’s the longest distance ever traveled for a regular season game in school history and the program’s second trip to China.

Yale will also play at Duke (Dec. 8), Memphis (Nov. 17 or 18), Miami (Dec. 1) and Vermont (Nov. 21). The Bulldogs will face six teams that participated in the postseason last year — Duke, Miami, Iona (Dec. 22) and Penn (Feb. 9, March 8). Vermont and Harvard (Feb. 1 and 23) were in the NIT.

The first of 12 home games is Dec. 5 against Lehigh. The first Ivy League game is Jan. 19 against Brown.